Wonderful character development!

I really don't get the hype.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

The comedy wasn't funny, the drama and the resolutions were all predictable, and most of the performances made me feel uncomfortable. Not sure who owed who a favor, but this should have never been a feature film. It's basically an average Lifetime movie, but gets a slight bump only because of Jennifer Aniston, who always pulls off these safe familiar roles with some spark and even some depth, but that isnt enough to help save an otherwise horribly predictable and flat script.

The cast is so great! (and unexpected cameos around every turn) a classic Garry Marshall film, with plenty of references to (and actors from) his other movies!

Take too many story lines, choppy editing,use every cliché' ever written,create shallow,wooden characters and make Julia Roberts look like an anemic guy in drag and you have this dumpster-fire of yikes.What is truly tragic is the cast individually are proved talents and you can tell how hard they are trying in this, but the directorial malpractice is so profound that the patient is lost almost immediately.i can only imagine the quiet agony of this terrific cast at the wake/premiere of this catastrophe.If you dislike someone intensely, buy them the DVD as a "gift".Hopefully the writers and the director are managing an IHOP somewhere soon. for the sake of all entertainment.

I actually enjoyed this movie more than some of the other similar Gary Marshall ensemble comedies. The cast is as likable as any you can get together in a movie and the scenarios are quite funny.Shay Mitchell of PLL is a scene stealer as younger second wife and she can hold her own in both looks and acting ability with the A list cast. Jennifer Aniston looks comfortably older as divorcée first wife. The funny situation is Kate Hudson's character hiding her Indian husband from her racist white trash parents. Brit Robertson never seems to look older than a teenager plays a woman with commitment issues. Julia Roberts looks deliberately I think a bit garish as a home shopping queen.Don't understand why people criticized this movie so badly. It's actually okay.